First I got out my Distress Ink pads in the colours "Tumbled Glass", "Broken China" and "Peacock Feathers" and swiped them over my water colour paper horizontally, so that it looked like waves. I started with my lightest colour for the top part of the paper and worked my way to the darkest colour for the bottom part. Using a brush I pulled the colour from the swipes to fill in the whole paper. I made sure that I kept as much as I could from the wave shapes though. After everything was filled in I flicked some water on top of my background piece, let it sit for a minute and then took it off with a dry towel. That way you get these cool bright spots that look like air bubbles in the water.

Then I die cut the nice background shape, added the embossed sentiment and also the sweet fish and other critters from the sea from "Sweet Stamp Shop" which I had already coloured for #thedailymarker30day2 challenge a couple of days back.

This is such a great card, Maike! I've have to wear 2 DT hats today to thank you for playing in the challenges at Pattie's Creations and at QKR Stampede. Good luck in the draws and hope to see you playing in the next challenges, too.NanaConnie DT